Improvement in carriage-seats



DANIEL GONBOY, OF UXBRIDGE, CANADA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARRIAGE-SEATS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,798, dated February16, 1875 application led January 18, 1875.

To all whom it may conce-rn Be it known that I, DANIEL GONBOY, of thevillage ot' Uxbridge, in the county of Ontario, in the Province ofOntario, Canada, carriage-manufacturer, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Vehicles for the Conveyance ot' Passengers, ofwhich the following is a specification:

My invention relates more particularly to improvements in theconstruction ofthe seats of the above-mentioned vehicles, so that theymay be used either with one or two seats, as desired; and it consists inhinging the rear seat to the front seat in such a way that when theformer is turned up a suitable distance it forms a high back for thefront seat. It consists, further, inthe peculiar construction andarrangement ot' the pivoted folding back of the rear seat; and, lastly,in the side-stays or arm-rails which hold the pivoted back of the seatin place, and which, when the rear seat is turned up to forni the backot' the front seat, hold it in proper position.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of anordinary open buggy or sleigh box with the seats constructed accordingto my invent-ion, and represented as a single-seated buggy or sleigh.Fig. 2 is a section, showing the same when arranged as a two-seatedbuggy or sleigh. Fig. 3 is a plan ot' the saine as litted with twoseats. Fig. 4 is a detail ot' the hasps in which the side-stays lock onthe front seat.

A is the body of a buggy or sleigh, the form and construction of whichmay be varied, as desired. B is the stationary seat placed at or nearthe center ofthe box, and having raking shallow stued sides. b Gis therear seat,

hinged to the bottom of B by the bars G1 G2. D is the back of the rearseat, consisting of a stuffed rail, D1, and two standards7 D2, which arepivoted at the point D3, to enable the back to be turned down when it isdesired to use the vehicle with a single seat only. E are the side-staysand arm-rails, pivoted at one end to the back D, the other end, E litting, when the vehicle is used with a double seat, in a hasp, U3, attachedto the bars G1. WVhen the vehicle is used with a single seat the ends Et into the hasp F. (Shown in detailin Fig. 4.) Any conimon method ot'securing the stays to the hasp may be adopted, such as a thumb-screw onthe end of the stays, or a tapering wedge, e, as shown in drawings,pivoted to the stays, which crowds the enlarged end of the latter underthe margin of the hasp-slot when both are inserted. Vhen the vehicle isused with a single seat the rail Dl folds forward, resting on the barsO1, and When the rear seat is lifted up and arranged as the back ot' thefront seat, this rail fills in the space which occurs between the seat Cand the shallow back b. Dl is provided with lugs D4, which bear againstI), and hold the whole combination in place when the stays E are locked.

The advantages gained by my invention are', that a vehicle with acombination-seat constructed according to my invention can be used withsingle or double seat, as desired, without in either case cramping theoccupants or sacricingits good appearance. A

I claim as my invention- The combination of seat B, bars O1 C2, seat C,pivoted back D, lugs D4, side-stays E, and hasps C3 and F, substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth.

DANIEL CONBOY. Witnesses:

W. B. RUSSELL, PETER Woon7 H. M. HOWELL.

